Example sentences of "on the [noun] had [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against Gorbachev 's wishes a vote on the issue had to be postponed until the following day . |
| 2 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 3 | To be entitled to trade on the floor of a market by the process of open outcry one had to be a clearing member , a natural enough requirement bearing in mind that all contracts made on the floor had to be registered with LCH . |
| 4 | The curse on the village had to be removed . |
| 5 | Plans for extensive work on the mansion had to be abandoned . |
| 6 | Some of the events on the loch had to be cancelled as a result . |
| 7 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 8 | The debate on the moratorium had to be suspended on June 27 in order to allow Landsbergis and Prunskiene to fly to Moscow for urgent clarification of the Soviet position on Lithuania 's status should the moratorium be declared . |
| 9 | His idea was simple : seats on Skytrain were not bookable in advance , they had to be bought on the day of travel in New York , London , or later San Francisco , and food on the flight had to be paid for . |